The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.471

v3.c20.471

³ That this was his title is proved by a contemporary inscription and legends on coins, as well as by independent historical evidence. European historians have hitherto accepted unquestioningly Firishta’s absurd legend of his having assumed the title ‘Alā-ud-dīn Hasan Kankū Bahmanī in honour of one Gangu, a Brāhman whose slave he had formerly been. His regal name was Bahman, and it is only to his successors that the epithet Bahmanī is properly applied. The meaning of the addition Kankū has not been established, but it is probably a corruption of Kaikāūs, the name of Bahman Shāh's father.